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Microsoft Project 2019 B.A.S.I.C.S.
Color Version
There's a better way to learn Microsoft Project! With over 200 color images, exercises, companion website and videos, learn to build reliable schedules in 6 steps!

Microsoft Project 2019 B.A.S.I.C.S.
Black and White Version
This Black and White version of the text includes everything included in the color version, excluding the color images.

REMOTEtional Intelligence
Also Available as a 6-Week Live Course!
Learn strategies for working from home effectively, using emotional intelligence to stay "plugged in" to the office and effectively managing interactions with managers, direct reports, coworkers, and stakeholders.
About Microsoft Project B.A.S.I.C.S.
COLOR VERSION
Microsoft Project 2019 B.A.S.I.C.S.
COLOR VERSION
There's a better way to learn Microsoft Project! Whether you're managing a construction project, deploying new software or launching a start-up, this learn-by-doing guide will help you build reliable schedules in a few basic steps. The B.A.S.I.C.S.® approach streamlines the schedule building process into 6 easy steps, organizing lessons around a simple acronym. Learn from a Microsoft-Certified Professional with 20+ years of project management experience and over 10 years of teaching experience.
You’ll learn to:
- Initialize a project
- Build a task-based schedule
- Manage resources and assignments
- Track project schedules and costs
- Create stunning status reports
This book includes a FREE 90-day subscription to the "Microsoft Project B.A.S.I.C.S. " video course. It also includes over 200 images, practice exercises and a companion website (mspbasics.com) to check your answers!
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BLACK AND WHITE VERSION
Microsoft Project 2019 B.A.S.I.C.S.
BLACK AND WHITE VERSION
This Black and White version of the text includes all the information included in the color version, except the color images.
This book includes a FREE 90-day subscription to the "Microsoft Project B.A.S.I.C.S. " video course, practice exercises and a companion website to check your answers (mspbasics.com)!
Get the Book!About the Microsoft Project B.A.S.I.C.S. Video Course
This streaming video rendition of the Microsoft Project B.A.S.I.C.S. book is about building and executing schedules. Like the book, you’ll be introduced to software features, in a meaningful and practical context.
The Video Course includes:
- 8 hours of Videos
- Software Demonstrations
- A Video for each chapter of the book
About REMOTEtional Intelligence
REMOTEtional Intelligence
Building Effective Remote and Hybrid Teams
The biggest problem with remote work is the illusion that remote work is working. Most have hurdled the technological challenges of remote work, but this was the lowest hurdle. The higher hurdles have gone largely unaddressed. They include addressing remote worker readiness issues, establishing a sense of presence, monitoring, assessing, driving and delivering optimal performance, closing trust gaps, and communicating effectively. In this book, you'll learn strategies for working from home effectively, using emotional intelligence to stay "plugged in" to the office and effectively managing interactions with managers, direct reports, coworkers, and stakeholders. The target audience is remote workers who want to deliver optimal performance from any location and managers who want to inspire optimal performance, while balancing trust with accountability.
Emotional Intelligence is a set of emotional and social skills that establish how well we perceive and express ourselves, develop and maintain relationships, cope with challenges, and use emotional information. It has great utility in remote work situations. It can help you address readiness challenges with more creativity, enhance your sense of presence, drive and deliver optimal performance, close trust gaps and communicate more effectively. In this book, we'll review the relevant aspects of emotional intelligence, using the 15 emotional intelligence traits categorized in the EQi-2.0 model. We'll share tactics for using these traits to overcome remote work challenges in the areas of Readiness, Presence, Performance, Trust and Communication.
When you're done with this book, you'll be able to:
- Explain why remote work should increase performance
- Identify your strengths and weaknesses as a remote worker
- Implement strategies to immediately improve remote performance
- Distinguish performance issues from remote worker readiness issues
- Describe the tools required for optimal remote work
- Develop a Communication Plan for managers, co-workers and customers
- Describe effective ways to establish a sense of Presence
- Provide effective responses to 7 common concerns about remote work
- Describe effective Monitoring and Trust strategies
- Identify 5 objective, pandemic-proof performance measures
- Describe effective strategies for closing trust gaps
- Use emotional intelligence to overcome remote work challenges
REMOTEtional Intelligence
6-Week Live Course
REMOTEtional Intelligence Live 6-Week Course
FREE Book - 1st 15 Registrants
In this 6-week course, you’ll learn the tactics prescribed in our book (REMOTEtional intelligence) for building result-oriented teams that work seamlessly as remote, hybrid or co-located teams. You’ll learn how 15 emotional intelligence traits can benefit remote workers, managers and teams by enabling remote worker autonomy, building presence, re-imagining performance, building trust, and simplifying the communication process. This fun, highly interactive, 6-Week course will include break-out rooms, games, polling, chat and a closing round of jeopardy to reinforce concepts.
Target Audience:
- Fully remote team members and managers
- Co-located team members and managers
- Hybrid team members and managers
- Remote workers who want to deliver optimal performance
- Managers who want to inspire optimal performance while balancing trust with accountability
Click the “Learn More” button below to register or for details about each week’s learning outcomes.
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